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ungulateman

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Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« on: January 30, 2010, 07:10:47 am »
Increase the amount of words with Dwarven translations. Consider that "hewn" doesn't have a translation yet. Or "carved". More words means that you could have even crazier (or more sensible) names for your fortresses.

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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2010, 08:12:43 am »
I'd like this. I would love it if we would one day have a complete dwarven language, which one could learn and start speaking :D Still I don't think this is a very important issue right now. But I too would like to see more.
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2010, 08:20:34 am »
There is a Bloat on Languages with Gramatics etc. and toady enriches the Language files on a regular basis iirc.
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2010, 11:30:44 am »
Hmm? Why me? CURSE YOU UNGULATEMAN! I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED FOR... SOME REASON.
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2010, 11:44:11 am »
he justr likes your avatar ;)
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2010, 06:22:45 pm »
Wait, what? I meant that guy who always pops up and says "this has been done before". I swore he/she was called Doomshifter for some reason.

Now what WAS his name...?
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2010, 06:25:16 pm »
Hmmm... are you talking about Footkerchief?
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2010, 09:42:23 pm »
Sometimes, it gets a little annoying. And yes, it's definitely footkerchief.
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2010, 10:30:02 pm »
This could be easily subcontracted out to the community in a similar way to the Small Things mod (which increases the images that appear when engraving and adventure mode conversations).

Toady could ask someone willing to contribute his/her time to make a list of words, formatted accordingly, which would be run through Toady's random word generator/language generation algorithm and copied into the current dictionaries.

The gathering and translation of words could take place separately from the development arcs, and be incorporated into the main version on each version release.

Edit: maybe someone should actually e-mail this to Toady as a suggestion instead of leaving it to rot here. Not me though.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2010, 10:31:56 pm by darkflagrance »
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2010, 01:12:53 am »
Quote from: ungulateman on January 30, 2010, 06:22:45 pm
Wait, what? I meant that guy who always pops up and says "this has been done before". I swore he/she was called Doomshifter for some reason.

Now what WAS his name...?
Yeah, it's totally Footkerchief. I'm many, many thousands of times lazier than that dude.

I think Footkerchief may be omniscient. He appears in threads, throws down some carefully researched comment and a bunch of links and doesn't afraid of anything. He's a pretty cool dude.
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Re: Expanded Dwarven Vocabulary
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2010, 02:21:11 am »
...who doesn't afraid of anything.

Yeah, sorry for wasting your time, Inuit booby lady.

(It's a movie reference, natch.)
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